Research Library

August 2011

There are instances of people who although not officially a director act is if they are a director. The law understands this and allows for them to be made liable for any malfeasance and a recent c...25 Aug 2011

The Government has brought two deregulatory amendments to the EU Prospectus Directive into effect a year early which may help small businesses access equity finance more easily. By implementin...25 Aug 2011

Web performance firm Site Confidence has shared some insight into the impact of this week's HP TouchPad fire sale on the UK e-tail community, revealing that hordes of consumers seeking out the barg...24 Aug 2011

Nearly 70% ofBritish workers are now using at least one of their own devices, whether it be a notebook, smartphone or tablet, in their day-to-day work, according to Mitel, with many end-users expre...24 Aug 2011

There's an awful lot that can go wrong with service level agreements (SLAs) oncloud-based services says Craig Beddis, Regional SVP at UC4 Software. Services in the cloud are not available when ther...24 Aug 2011

HP's Technology Services unitis lining up a series of new services for the channel to be launched over the next three to six months, and partners who may be concerned over the potential loss of the...24 Aug 2011

Resellers have to do more to establish their cloud credentials with customers or face themselves being squeezed out of the conversation with customers. Disturbing research from Rise Partners has r...24 Aug 2011

With the decision to exit PCs and tablets still reverberating HP has taken steps to reassure customers over concerns they may have over the company direction. In a major shake-up, HP announced pla...24 Aug 2011

Distributors should be able to swallow the loss of HP's PC and tablet business thanks largely to the moves they have been making over the last few years to diversify their portfolios and rely less ...24 Aug 2011

The number of IT firms hitting the wall rose slightly last month year-on-year as the number of insolvencies across the economy as a whole increased only slightly with large companies holding firm i...24 Aug 2011

Are we in a post-PC age or a PC plus age? Lots of people have been saying the golden age of the PC is over, a perception reinforced by HP's abrupt decision to get out of the PC business as soon as ...24 Aug 2011

According to a recent survey from the Department of Work and Pensions employee sickness at work isn't being recorded correctly, if at all.In fact some 21 per cent of employers haven't got any form ...24 Aug 2011

Virtualisation demands are becoming more complex as customers look to replicate some of the multi-tasking they enjoy in the physical world in their virtual environments. The result is a change in ...23 Aug 2011

Former Riverbed EMEA vice president Marcus Chambers has popped up at US VM storage specialist Tintri to oversee its expansion into Europe. Tintri, which builds VM-aware storage appliances, is movin...23 Aug 2011

The price slashing on the HP TouchPad reached fever pitch last night with those retailers that chose to sell stock online selling out in minutes. With expectations of a fire-sale starting in earnes...23 Aug 2011

UK software firm Micro Focus has watched its share price slide after revealing that takeover talks with two finance houses have come to an end without a deal being struck. Originally the firm had ...23 Aug 2011

The Government has bought forward the closure of a loophole which previously had allowed businesses to accelerate capital allowances claims for plant and machinery and thereby obtain advantageous e...23 Aug 2011

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